Former politician and now businessman Rafael Arias-Salgado said at the School of Economics that "all countries with stable institutions have been able to demonstrate that crises are well channeled and digested; the worst thing is to question them in times of crisis".

Arias-Salgado launched a message of stability and confidence in Spain in contrast with the adverse economic situation, and reminded that if we take into account the social and cultural reality "Spain is a historical miracle". With the historical experience that allows her to have occupied different ministries in the first governments of democracy, she explained that our country is "similar" to other European countries, and defined the Old Continent as a "melting pot" (English expression that can be translated as melting pot, and that makes reference letter to the homogenization of populations from a more heterogeneous status ).

The also minister with the Popular Party of José María Aznar, who was part of and promoted the still today claimed Transition, stressed that Spain is a country that is distinguished by its "uniqueness and diversity beyond nationalism", in his opinion it is a matter of "idiosyncrasy".

And although he acknowledged "certain imbalances" in the functioning of the State of Autonomies, he stressed the political, economic and cultural progress that can be seen in our country looking back three decades.

He defended the strongly decentralized State included in the Spanish Constitution, and although he recognized that it resembles "like an egg to another egg" a federal state, he clarified that "in its classic conception, the federal state is a union of original sovereignties, and that is why it was not accepted in Spain".

When asked by the students, Arias-Salgado defended open and unblocked lists - "of course"-, but also reminded that the electoral system "must guarantee the representativeness of minorities, but also governability, for which the training of strong governments is necessary".

Arias-Salgado's experience helped the students to draw a "conceptual map" of Spain, which in his opinion oscillates between three main aspects: "Rule of Law and representative democracy, social and welfare state and market Economics and critical freedom and empirical method".

He reminded the future workforce of this country that companies are going to ask them for "the ability to place specific problems in a context to achieve their full significance, because problems never appear in isolation, but always in an environment". And although he assured that all his lecture was open to opinion and encouraged the young people to discuss with him, he assured that his work in the future will be "to understand problems and insert them in wider and wider contexts".